The Scope and Ownership of fedora-list

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 28 August 2008 16:38:36 Les Mikesell wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 08:45 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> >> Just the same way things work now except that there would be less
> >> repetition and once a pattern of showing useful info in the wiki
> >> emerged, people would start to look there first.
> >
> > Just like how people use Google instead of asking about something on a
> > mailing list...   ;-)
>
> Google is about as far from a specifically collated and indexed set of
> information as you can get.  If you don't already almost know what you
> are looking for you are going to have a hard time sorting it out.  And
> worse, old, incorrect information never dies there.  A mail list
> provides timely/dated information but the questions and incorrect
> responses make it difficult to find the existing content.  A wiki takes
> a little extra effort to maintain, but allows each person who uses the
> content to tweak it for correctness and their use cases.
>
A wiki takes a *lot* of effort to maintain if you want it to stay relevant.

Anne

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